Thankfully before she started to turn mango yellow due to over consumption, we have been tossed a feeding lifeline by a lot of lovely friends who have "been there and done that" with their non eating babies. As the Little Princess has decided over the past couple of weeks that she would eat nothing served from a bowl or via a spoon, we were at a a bit of a loss and trying to prevent the UK's first case of rickets in I don't know how long.
So we asked around and were given the fantastic advise of putting a selection of finger foods that she could manage on her high chair tray and basically ignoring her and what she did with them. We've never been afraid of a little mess - babies, high chairs, and clothes are all washable (thankfully, as are my now jam and yoghurt covered dining room windows) so we gave it a go and so far it's proving a success. What have we given her?
Pieces of cooked sweet potato, carrot, and potato. Strawberries, blueberries, grapes and pieces of banana and melon. Hard boiled egg (her current fave!) with pieces of cheese or toast, and cut up pieces of cooked pasta and turkey. A lot of it ends up mashed into her hair and my once lovely hardwood floors have now seen much better days, but none of that matters. And as we've been told...the best way to create a fussy eater is to be anal retentive about them making no mess.
Right, I'm off to eat my lovely homecooked dinner of aubergine (eggplant) and goat's cheese pasta, and maybe smear a bit of it into the carpet just for fun....
2 comments:
Have you tried french toast sandwiched with some banana??
ohhhh great suggestion, will give it a try!
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